Parts of west Georgia are no longer considered to be under an enhanced risk of severe weather when strong storms arrive Friday afternoon.
The National Weather Service dropped Calhoun, Rome, Carrollton and LaGrange from the Level 3 warned area with their latest outlook released at 12:30 p.m. The severe weather risk is considered a slight Level 2 for those areas but remains enhanced for the rest of North Georgia.
According to Channel 2 Action News meteorologists, midmorning rain has pushed the storm timeline back a few hours. Two lines of storms are making their way into the northern part of the state, one along the Gulf Coast and another moving east from Alabama.
A tornado watch is likely to be issued within the next few hours ahead of the storms, which are expected to move into metro Atlanta sometime between 2 and 4 p.m. Conditions could deteriorate around school dismissal time, chief meteorologist Glenn Burns said.
Don’t let the sunshine and blue sky at midday lull you into a false sense of security, Burns warned, calling it “the fool’s clearing.”
“No, this is destabilizing the atmosphere,” he said. “This is never a good thing with a situation like the one we have developing this afternoon.”
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